the death of us

on issuu: https://issuu.com/monk51295/docs/death_of_us_pdf

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slaves/whales = dead.. because st\ripped of context

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page originally inspired by 2 min video below

via unwanted stress

more youth voices:

stigmatizing-the-human-mind

Instead of embracing the diversity of the human mind, we have stigmatized the very differences that are so characteristic of humans. 

The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) declared war on the introverts, and the educationally challenged among others and has attempted to define what a normal human should be. An extroverted individual who works well with people, progresses well in conventional schooling, and will succeed in a conventional job.

http://divinecosmos.com/index.php/start-here/larrys-corner/larry-articles/860-the-best-graduation-speech-ever

The saddest part is that the majority of students don’t have the opportunity to reflect as I did. The majority of students are put through the same brainwashing techniques in order to create a complacent labor force working in the interests of large corporations and secretive government, and worst of all, they are completely unaware of it. I will never be able to turn back these 18 years. I can’t run away to another country with an education system meant to enlighten rather than condition. This part of my life is over, and I want to make sure that no other child will have his or her potential suppressed by powers meant to exploit and control. We are human beings. We are thinkers, dreamers, explorers, artists, writers, engineers. We are anything we want to be – but only if we have an educational system that supports us rather than holds us down. A tree can grow, but only if its roots are given a healthy foundation.

http://www.joebower.org/2013/02/an-student-regrets-his-grades.html

Less than three years ago, I graduated high school. I was a driven student who scored a 100 per cent average, served as the students’ council president and class valedictorian, earned over 16 scholarships/awards, etc. The bottom line is that I was a high achiever, but I mistakenly defined achievement in a way most do: with my GPA. It was only until a couple of years ago, when I began to question my own educational career, that I realized something profound: The academic portion of my high school life was spent in the wrong way, with cloudy motivations. I treated schooling and education synonymously. I had been directed not by my inner voice, but by societal pressures that limited my ability to foster personal creativity.

The system teaches us that if you get ‘As’ across the board, you’ll be successful. And if you fail a course, you’ll be labelled incompetent or hopeless. These pressures force students to regard education as a mere schooling tenure where the goal is to input a sufficient amount of work to output the highest possible grades. We sacrifice learning for schooling. One of my professors once said, “Writing exams isn’t a measure of intelligence or knowledge, it’s about getting inside your prof’s head to figure out what’ll be on the exam.”

suffocating from the day

supposed to’s of school/work

I just figured out that I make myself or decide that I’m sick, because being sick in my room is the only way I get space and time to think for myself.

James Bach – as a kid in school on grades

See that 94 in nith-grade science? I barely attended that class. Most days, I skipped it and played in the computer lab instead. I went to science class each Friday to take the test, which was a weak mix of vocabulary words and multiple-choice questions about basic facts of nature. Even thought I turned in no homework, passing such tests was apparently enough to get a good grade.

See that 49 in tenth-grade physics? Looks like a low score, doesn’t it? But I loved physics. I studied it at home. I made drawings of spaceships and calculated how fast they could go and how long it would take them to reach Alpha Centauri. I taught myself to use a sliderule and calculated trajectories of rockets that put space stations into orbit, the centrifugal forces on those space stations and the energy of meteoroids that might strike them in orbit.

But none of that was part of my schoolwork. So it didn’t count.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/02/destabilizing-the-bullying-power-structure.html

It involves trusting people to become something wonderful, as opposed to insisting that they fit in at all costs. 

It involves being honest about what we hear when we lean in, what is real, and what isn’t.

It’s about being public enough, people-minded enough, to lean in to the beauty of each and every soul. Because we can. And because meeting people there ..keeps us all in alive-ness.

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this happens too often: